Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1887-09-03
WELL REBUKED.


Some Very Good Reading for Girls lnfA&-
uated with Actors.
Hero-worsbip is q fire of youth which no
wise person would desire to Queneh. One
form Of it, however, and that q "malady
most incident to maids" says Youths
Companion, is always damaging. o only
to fine character but sometimes ven to the
reputation of the worshipLer.
Certain public personages, usually actors
and Musicians, are invested by the youth
full Imagination with a glamor which quite
their votaries commit many q sin against
decorum in the hope of worthily expressing
their admiration of these heroes of the
day.
The mails of public favorites overflow
with letters containing Wholesale COM
mendation of their powers or persons.
Some snch e~ulogies are written by young
girls who would never dream of violating
the dictates of good breeding in their own
walks in life, but b feel that the world of
they dwell that any message sent to it will
not be judged by ordinary laws.
When q certain Italian tenor was at the
height OF his fame a young lady in high
social standing became SO enamored OF his
voice that her admiration extended to it's
possessor, and, quite carried away by her
feelings, she wrote him a succession of fer
vent letters, even begging that she might
have the privilege OF meeting MIN outside
the concert-room.
Finally she received a note from the
singer asking her to go to his house at an
appointed hour. Overcome with telight.
the foolish girl faithfully went. and was re-
ceived by the Itailan-and his wife.
81 had never specialized upon the sing
er's domestic relations. possibly because he
seemed to inhabit too rarifed an atmoe-
phere. to he regarded as other men, and
the presence of the lady was a decided
shock to her enthusiasm.
The host and hostess were most courte-
Gus, and exceedingly matter-of-fact; the
call was an agreeable one, but the visitor
cense OF praise before her hero. Moreover,
when brought into social contact with this
somewhat commonplace individual, she
was overwhelmed with shame at the
thought Of her silly letters.
When she took her leave the singer &C
companied her to the door.
MY der young lady," he said, with
kindly courtesy, Twill you let me give you
a word Of friendly warning? 1t is never
safe to open the heart TO mere stranger.
You knew nothing If my character VIII. n
you came here to-day, and it was FORUM
ate for you that l happened to be a
gentleman"
1t is only fair to say that girls are rarely
as reckless as this; sometimes they are
only silly.
It was at one time believed that a certain
maid of honor at the court If SAKE eimar
was addicted to the use of tobacco. be-
cause her person was redolent of the weed.
She one day confessed, however. that she
wore constantly in a iewcled locket about
her neck a cigar-stufnp thrown away in
the street by Franz List and instantly
secured by her.
Such an extreme of enthusiasm may be
quite innocenr. but its display is always in
bad taste and will inevitably furnish food
for regret in later life.
The emotional spendthrift has no time
for the cultivation of self respect: he ID con-
tinually, by his own acts, entering more
deeply the tolls of the usurer remorse